nutshell

«nutshell» in Mova's school dictionary: The hard outer shell of a nut — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (a nutshell, nutshells)

meaning for a pupil

1) The hard outer shell of a nut. tree →

2) «In a nutshell» means in very few words, said briefly. tree →

sense in the lessons

The idiom is common in school: «in a nutshell, plants need light, water and air». It helps sum up.

examples

• The squirrel cracked the nutshell. tree →
• In a nutshell, we lost because we were slow. tree →
• The walnut's nutshell is hard. tree →
• In a nutshell, the mean is the total divided by how many numbers there are. tree →
• Explain your story in a nutshell. tree →
• The nutshells lay all over the floor. tree →

note

Plural: nutshells. «In a nutshell» is fixed.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «nutshell» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.